Definition of "venally" []

• In a venal fashion; mercenarily or in a manner subject to corruption. (adverb)

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• "And the most venally ambitious of the criminally insane manage to scramble to the top."
• "Republicans and "Blue Dog" Democrats alike have finally done something that does more than just venally and verbally attack the Obama Administration."
• "Avant-garde anti-realists probably err in assuming that realist novelists are just complacently or venally recycling convention; my experience is that many intelligent novelists are painfully aware of their bated means, their limitations and timidities and uncertainties, and look with writhing admiration at writers like Beckett or Saramago or Bernhard or David Foster Wallace, who seem to have discovered new fictional languages."